Saxophonist Jimmy Greene remembers his beloved six-year-old daughter Ana
on his latest release, FLOWERS. The child was murdered five years ago, along
with twenty of her classmates and six teachers, at Sandy Hook Elementary
School in Newtown, CT. Greene paid previous tribute to her and the others
in his 2014 album, Beautiful Life. Now he has followed it with
FLOWERS, a CD dedicated to Ana and her love of dancing.

Greene, joined by various members of his two touring bands, wrote ten new
tunes for FLOWERS (the eleventh, Something About You, is the
only non-original). He leads the way on all of them, backed up by such artists
as John Pattitucci, Otis Brown III, Renee Rosnes and Mike Moreno. Sheena
Rattai and Jean Baylor each contribute a vocal.

Greene, a
longtime jazz stalwart on the sax, outdoes himself on FLOWERS, playing
with extraordinary skill, power and emotion. There is nothing sentimental
or sappy here; he and the others simply play their hearts out, sometimes
intensely and joyously (Fun Circuits), other times in a strong,
bluesy way (December, the month in which the massacre occurred).
The result is an album thats as moving and life-affirming as it
could possibly be.